Recent content by Pum

Well this is an excellent guide for OC beginners: http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=22916 I suggest you read this and come back with questions to clarify anything necessary.

I have an E8400 E0, but haven't finished testing OC and stability or tuning vcore etc. So far I've got 4.34GHz (482x9) OCCT stable for at least 10 mins (no problems - didn't have time to test longer) of full load @ 1.412 vcore set in BIOS. In Windows, utils like CPU-Z and OCCT reported vcore...

Updated to F5b BIOS. Tried lots of OC settings but no improvement on F4. Can't even get a 10% OC to 367 FSB - I expected it to do that on all AUTO settings. May try F5a but don't have lots of time to test. Yeah, I read EasyTune 6 is not for P35, but it seems to work OK, and EasyTune 5 is...

Yeah, you can see lots of advanced timings in Everest, in the motherboard section, I think. Also, MemSet shows lots of timings, including a few different ones, and can allow you to set them on the fly - I've not tried this yet.

Had very little time to test yesterday evening, but did install EasyTune 6, which is easier and clearer to use than EasyTune 5. Using EasyTune I explored the limit of my mobos FSB. Set CPU to x8 and memory to x2.0. Acheived 490MHz FSB OK and ran SuperPI 1M. 500MHz locked the system. No time...

Well I haven't had time to try much, but yesterday evening I did have a bit of time and decided to try EasyTune. To my surprise it worked, and I easily got the CPU up to 4.1GHz (456x9) and memory up to 1094MHz (456x2.4)! I've tried lots of settings in the BIOS with no success, but EasyTune was...

Well I've got a lot of suggestions to try, when I get enough time, including the beta BIOS. I'm not so worried abut the effort of stabilising my system. I'm dissappointed and frustrated that I can't even get an unstable OC to try to stabilise. It won't even try to boot at 2% OC settings -...

Yeah, this is my first Gigabyte mobo. Previously pretty much used Asus, including on my Northwood and Barton OCed systems. I went for Gigabyte because from my research they seemed to now be about as good as Asus and the feature set looked good, especially the save/load CMOS profiles feature...

I tried the Mem multi on x2.4 (just over 800MHz when I tried 340MHz system clock) and x2.0 (well under 700MHz) and no joy. The RAM is rated to run at 1066MHz and 2.2v to 2.4v. I don't know if that mean you have to run it at those voltages to acheive high speeds, but as I was only running a tad...

Hi, I just put together a budget performance system based on a GA-P35-S3G and an E8400. I didn't get a choice of core when I orderred the CPU, and happened to get an E0 core, as opposed to the earlier C0 core. Now normally this would be good, but I notice from googling on OCing this mobo that...

I would definately fit whatever fans you can and a better CPU cooler. Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 is perhaps the best of the cheap CPU coolers if cost is a problem. Case doesn't have to be expensive, but space for air to flow, and places to mounts fans is important. Try to mount at least one...

Sounds reasonably OK to me, in my limited experience. I have an E8400 running stock 3GHz so far, and it hits 43c or so on full load (TJmax set at 100c.) I believe below 60c is considered fine. Also, how are you measuring that? I assume it's core temp, but which tool are you using and what...

Looks like a good price for the res and size and features. All those connectors could be handy if you ever need to hook up an old system. If that's your budget limit then it seems a good choice. If you can afford more then see if you can get a 22" or 24", but as others have mentioned that...

If you want a top end current quad or dual core then I'd say yes, wait for their prices to drop when Nehalem comes out if that's not too long away. If you want a middle of the range quad or dual core (eg: E8400) then they're already quite affordable and I don't think their prices will drop very...

According to the datasheet for your Corsair TWIN2X4096-6400C4DHX memory, it is rated to run at 800MHz 4-4-4-12 @ 2.1V. Possibility that it won't run at 835MHz 4-4-4-12 @ 2.1V. Try 5-5-5-15 which, IIRC, is what most PC8500 DDR2 1066MHz rated memory will run at. Could try more memory volts...